Article
The role of subterminal sites of transposable element Ds of Zea mays in excision.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 27 Nov 1995
Chatterjee S, Starlinger P
Abstract excerpt
Transposition depends on DNA sequences located at or near the termini of the transposon. In the maize transposable element Ds, these sequences were studied by site-directed mutagenesis followed by a transient excision assay in Petunia protoplasts. The transposase-binding AAACGG motifs found in large numbers in the element are important, but none of them is in itself indispensable, for excision. However, mutation...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- DNA Nucleotidyltransferases
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Gene Expression
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Mutation
- Point Mutation
- Protoplasts
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid